BUTLER -- A Vernon man was found guilty today of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman outside a Butler bagel shop two years ago.

It took the 13-member jury just 75 minutes to determine that Andrew William Pena, a 41-year-old commercial carpenter and golf instructor, was guilty of aggravated sexual assault, criminal sexual contact, criminal restraint and burglary when he entered the car the victim was driving, dragged her to the ground and sexually assaulted her on Jan. 28, 2007.

Patti Sapone/The-Star LedgerAndrew Pena appears in a courtroom during his trial at Morris County Superior Court in Morristown. Pena was convicted today of sexually assaulting a woman in Butler two years ago.

Pena showed no emotion in Superior Court in Morristown as the verdict was read.

He faces up to 40 years in state prison, said Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi.

The victim, who is now 21 and lives in Randolph, sat with her mother and sister in the courtroom as the verdict was announced, clutching their hands and wiping away tears.

"I can finally sleep better at night," the woman said outside the courtroom, embracing her family. "I knew they had the right person the entire time. It's over."

When the proceeding was over, Pena adjusted his glasses and whispered to his attorney, Alex Pagano, before he was handcuffed and escorted out. Judge Salem Ahto revoked his $1 million bail.

Pena, who has been married for 15 years and formerly lived in Pompton Lakes, will be evaluated at the state's Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel to determine if he meets treatment criteria to be incarcerated in the facility.

Shortly after the crime, the woman picked Pena out of a lineup, and his fingerprint was found on the driver's side window of the Saturn the woman was driving the night of the attack.

When questioned Feb. 2, 2007, by Butler police, Pena said he spent the weekend splitting wood. Last week, he told the jury he arrived at the bagel shop around 4 a.m. Jan. 28, 2007, after spending the day in New York City on business.

During the trial, the woman said Pena was sweeping outside the shop and directed her to drive to the back of G&A Bagels on Route 23. There, he exposed himself before he yanked her from the car, forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her, she said.

Morris County Assistant Prosecutors Robert Lane and Meg Rodriguez said in court that Pena ran off when two of the woman's friends interrupted the assault.

"I stand by my client," Pagano said after the proceedings. "It was a tough trial. I'm very devastated by the loss."

Pena's prior lewd acts were introduced as evidence during the trial. Pena was convicted in Wayne in 2002 and Paramus in 2003 on disorderly persons charges of lewdness for exposing himself to two women in store parking lots during daytime hours.

Pena is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 18.

"This defendant represents the greatest fear a woman can have," Bianchi said. "We will now respond by asking the court at sentencing to take away from him his freedom to walk the streets ... so that women in the future will not be victimized by him again."